[176] It is estimated that 275,000 people formed the van of the first
crusade.
[177] L. O. Pike, _History of Crime in England_, i. pp. 164-9.
[178] _History of Latin Christianity_, iv. p. 188.
[179] _History of the Holy War_, bk. iii.
[180] _Intellectual Development of Europe_, 1872, p. 425.
[181] Milman, iv. p. 199.
[182] _Holy Roman Empire_, p. 164.
[183] See Bloch, _Sexual Life of our Time_, pp. 568-74.
[184] _Epidemics of the Middle Ages_, pp. 87-8.
[185] Hecker, p. 91.
[186] _Epidemics_, p. 105.